SACRAMENTO – California State Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) issued the following statement in support of Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of an executive order to place an indefinite moratorium on the death penalty in California:

SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) moderated a panel about the status of incarceration in California. The panel was part of the State of Black California, an informational briefing to address the issues confronting black Californians, including education, health, public safety, tech diversity and the black vote.

Assemblymember Kamlager-Dove moderated a panel on the state of mass incarceration. Participants will include the CA Dept. of Corrections, Stanford Law School's Three Strikes Project Professor Michael Romano, and Ella Baker Center Executive Director Zachary Norris.

Several workers compensation bills read for the first time in the California legislature on Monday would expand presumptive illness and injury protections to more workers and protect employees from discrimination in disability determinations.

S.B. 567, introduced by Sen. Anna Caballero, D-Salinas, and Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, would extend the injury and illness presumption currently provided to first responders in the state to include registered nurses who provide direct patient care in an acute care setting.